This article was taken from Nudist History:
Cheri Alexander, founder and owner of the Travelites, has been a nudist for over 40 years and visited more than 55 clubs, resorts, parks, and beaches. She has been active in the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) at the national and regional levels since 1987.
Cheri has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Biology as well as an Associate’s Degree in Medical Technology and has worked primarily as an office and business manager for most of her working career and managed two businesses in which she was an owner.
She taught biology and currently coordinates an undergraduate research course and lectures to Sociology classes.
In addition to nudist activities, Cheri is active in her community and served an elected position on the Citizens Planning Commission in Tulsa, OK, and on a County Planning Advisory Committee in Columbia, SC.
She is active in her religious congregation and serves on the Sisterhood & synagogue Boards.
Related to nudism Cheri has held many positions and been involved in numerous activities to promote social nudist concepts.
She has been a member of AANR's Speakers Bureau. As part of the AANR Mentor Program, she has helped with the start of over 20 non-landed clubs and at least two landed clubs. She served as marketing specialist with AANR's Marketing/PR Team. She was awarded AANR Woman of the Year in 1990. She has been recipient of an AANR Educational Fund grant multiple times. While serving as AANR Liaison with the Prodigy Online Service, she introduced countless people to nudism, actually documenting hundreds who made the step into social nudity.
She is a member of the Naturist Outreach Volunteer Advocate (NOVA) Program with The Naturist Society.
Cheri held various offices in Southwest Region of AANR (then the Southwest Sunbathing Association) and was awarded Woman of the Year, 1992.
With the AANR-Eastern Region, Cheri is the State Captain of the South Carolina Government Affairs Team, and has held positions of Director, Public Relations Chair, Scholarship Chair, and conducted public community seminars on nudism.
As Club Administrator for the Travelites, she has seen the club receive the following awards: Glen Eden Award (national) for the Most Outstanding publicity Event of the Year, 1993; O'Neil Award (national) Outstanding Public Relations, 1996; Largest Percentage Increase in Membership (ESA), 1996; Individual PR achievement award 2001
Ever endless efforts to promote nudism her community and government relations involvement include: AANR booth at Mayfest, a community festival with attendance over 150,000 held in the SC state capitol from 1996 through 1999 when the festival was discontinued; Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup 1996 - 2002 which put the Travelites' name on primary roadside signage; maintain liaison with State House and Senate committees regarding legislation potentially affecting nudism; appeared before South Carolina House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in 1998, 1999 and 2007, regarding indecent exposure and other bills that were defeated in committee.
Cheri has done frequent interviews on local radio stations regarding nudism and nudist activities and provided information and press releases to local media of nudist activities.
She has been invited to and lectured on nudist topics at the East Carolina University for the Sociology Department from 1998 - 2004.
Online, Cheri is endless in her efforts to spread the word about social nudism, serving as moderator on several online forums and email discussion groups and contributing to numerous others.
SOURCE: Nudist History
